IGN Game Reviews

This deck-building roguelike is all about con jobs, but its greatness is no grift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Rig Nacon Pro Compact, the company’s first Xbox controller, is smaller and lighter than a Microsoft gamepad, but not as comfortable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Communication is key, and that’s true whether you’re in a relationship or guiding someone through defusing a bomb that’s about to send the world back to the Stone Age. Operation: Tango is an asymmetrical, co-op-only spy ’em up inspired by the likes of 2015 indie puzzler Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and all those scenes in the Mission: Impossible movies where Simon Pegg is telling Tom Cruise wh...

The first chapter's remaster removes many – but not all – of the caveats from my strong recommendation to revisit BioWare's epic sci-fi RPG from the beginning (or to play it for the first time). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A strong Irish story and a few interesting battles amid a sea of run-of-the-mill recycled quests make Wrath of the Druids worth a return trip to Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Returnal's runs are too long for their own good, but the moment-to-moment action is phenomenal in this surprisingly lengthy and deep third-person shooter roguelike Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A genuinely engrossing and increasingly combat-heavy continuation of the Ethan Winters story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This isn't the generational leap forward we might've expected following a new console launch, but it's still the best baseball sim you can play on any platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A photography game with occasionally clunky progression, but which is eager to show off its delightful subjects and let them surprise you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This remaster makes a grand old game feel less old – but it doesn't make it feel new again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NieR Replicant is an action RPG with obvious flaws involving outdated quest design and repetitive combat, but those flaws are easily forgiven in light of its incredible characters, along with its unconventional and emotionally resonant story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MotoGP 21 is a good year for new riders to hop on but it hasn't particularly distanced itself much from MotoGP 20. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An excellent remake with charm, challenge... and loads of bugs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fast and competitive gameplay keeps it fun even if we’re confined to just one maze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Doom 3: VR Edition pales in comparison to other VR shooters, or even playing Doom 3 on a flat screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A fiddly world map and confusing objectives foil the plans of this stylish, gleeful villain simulator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can’t Drive This is an imaginative and fresh co-op experience and a genuine riot with four players, but thin on modes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace's simple combat and uninspired "detective" work won't sate your Lovecraftian hunger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Narita Boy has the look of a stunner, but it's let down by poor exploration, one-note combat, and one particularly bad level that puts a dark cloud over what would otherwise be a ray of trichroma sunshine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For whom the Hell tolls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paradise Lost fails to take full advantage of its gripping premise and the haunting atmosphere of its setting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It Takes Two is a beautiful, breakneck-paced, co-op adventure that’s bubbling over with creativity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stronghold Warlords has a refreshing East Asian setting and satisfying castle building, but it looks and plays like an RTS that was asleep for most of the last decade or two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Obsidian has leaned hard into turning The Outer Worlds into a sci-fi detective game with its two DLC expansions – a direction that plays to the strengths of its characters and writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices